by Shelley Wood | Mar 23, 2017
Karen is co-leading two SIGs at CHI. In this one, Karen and co-presenter Bill Kunes be sharing the work of their students at the University of Maryland. Below is the description. You can learn more on the conference website. A constant flow of reporting documents the...
by Shelley Wood | Feb 7, 2017
Karen is looking forward to her time in the Big Easy! She’ll be working with Tulane University, which is also hosting two public events. Karen will be speaking on her two passions: Retaining Women in Tech and the evolution of Contextual Design. This is a rare...
by Shelley Wood | Nov 2, 2016 | Blog
Watch the webinar, take this survey for our research, volunteer to help, and/or be interviewed. Why are women leaving high tech? While there are many reasons for this phenomenon, research indicates that daily workplace factors, along with the realities of what they...
by Shelley Wood | Nov 1, 2016 | Blog, Featured
In this blog, Karen discussed one of the key dimensions of the Women in Tech Framework that defines the critical aspects of daily life necessary to help women thrive and succeed in the high technology industry. The Most Important Dimension The first and the most...
by Shelley Wood | Jun 1, 2016 | Blog
In a SIG at the CHI 2016 Conference, Carol Farnsworth and Karen Holtzblatt shared the initial qualitative and quantitative research and the resulting Action Framework. Participants then broke into groups to review the field data for each factor and generate possible...
